Jahanzeb Sherwani(pronunciation)

Adjunct Faculty, Language Technologies Institute
PhD Graduate '09, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Advisors: Roni Rosenfeld and Alex Rudnicky

Thesis Topic: Speech Interfaces for Information Access by Low-Literate Users in the Developing World. (PhD thesis)

Main Project:
HealthLine Investigating speech interfaces for community health workers in Pakistan (case study)

Previous Projects:
Asterisk Setting up VoIP infrastructure for the Sphinx Group at CMU (ppt)
Sublime Designing a system that learns by being told, and remembers information relevant for each user (video)
CALO Speeding up Sphinx 3 recognition speed, while maintaining high accuracy for the CALO Meeting Recorder (paper)
OpenSALT Speech-enabled XML SALT standard implemented in Mozilla

Grants & Awards:
Siebel Scholar Award, class of 2008
Microsoft Research Digital Inclusion RFP grant recipient, 2006-2007

Publications:

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Carolyn Rose, Roni Rosenfeld. Orality-Grounded HCID: Understanding the Oral User. In Information Technologies & International Development, Special Issue on Human Computer Interaction and Development, December 2009.

Yaw Anokwa, Thomas Smythe, Divya Ramachandran, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Yael Schwartzman, Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, Neema Moraveji, Brian DeRenzi, Stories from the Field: Reflections on HCI4D Experiences, Journal of Information Technologies & International Development, Special Issue on Human Computer Interaction and Development, December 2009.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Sooraj Palijo, Sarwat Mirza, Tanveer Ahmed, Nosheen Ali, Roni Rosenfeld. Speech vs. Touch-tone: Telephony Interfaces for Information Access by Low Literate Users. In Proc. Information & Communications Technologies and Development, Doha, Qatar, April 2009.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld. The Case for Speech and Language Technologies for Developing Regions. In Proc. Human-Computer Interaction for Community and International Development workshop, Florence, Italy, April 2008.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Sarwat Mirza, Anjum Fatma, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld. HealthLine: Speech-based Access to Health Information by Low-literate Users. In Proc. IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India, December 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. HealthLine: Towards Speech-based Access to Health Information by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, Singapore, September 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Chen Ju, Alex Acero. VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information. In Proc. Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. Towards Speech Interfaces for Health Information Access by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. AI in ICT for Development, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Stefanie Tomko, and Roni Rosenfeld. Sublime: A Speech- and Language-based Information Management Environment. In Proc. IEEE Int.l Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

Arthur Chan, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Ravishankar Mosur, Alex Rudnicky. Four-Layer Categorization Scheme of Fast GMM Computation Techniques in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. In Proc. IEEE Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, S. Korea, October 2004.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, and Rajkumar Buyya. Libra: An Economy-driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters. Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 573-590, May 2004.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, and Rajkumar Buyya. Libra: An Economy-driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters. In Proc. Int.l Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, Bangalore, India, December 2002.


Email: jsherwan+web @ cs.cmu.edu

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